# lockups in 1.7.8p4

Ranalou (ranalou@stoopid.res.wpi.edu)
Tue, 26 Mar 1996 07:16:31 PST

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    On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Seth I. Rich wrote:

    > YES, I know this is a no-longer-supported version of the server, but this is
    > the weirdest MOO bug(?) I've seen in eons, and I'm just curious if anyone
    > else has run into it.
    >
    > We've got an out-of-the-box LambdaMOO 1.7.8p4 server, with
    > open_network_connection enabled, running a LambdaCore-based MOO, on an
    > AIX machine (I think).  If a user types a command for which argstr has
    > length greater than eighty characters, the server drops that command and
    > refuses to take more input from the connection.  However, the user is
    > still able to -receive- data.
    >
    > Has anyone ever seen this before?

    Yup, but on a smaller scale...  This happens to me, personally, when I'm
    connecting straight from a dumb-terminal to the MOO.  Since the MOO does
    no terminal emulation whatsoever, I have always just expected this, more
    or less.

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